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    This Is Where the World Ends
    This Is Where the World Ends
    This Is Where the World Ends
    Audiobook6 hours

    This Is Where the World Ends

    Written by Amy Zhang

    Narrated by Michael Crouch and Justis Bolding

    3.5/5

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    A heart-wrenching novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world from Amy Zhang, the critically acclaimed Indies Introduce and Indie Next author of Falling into Place.

    Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That’s how it’s been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivien moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It’s the perfect friendship—as long as no one finds out about it. But then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt.

    Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie’s disappearance in an astonishing second novel that will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 22, 2016
    ISBN9780062421418
    Author

    Amy Zhang

    Amy Zhang was born in China and moved to the United States when she was a young girl. She grew up in Wisconsin and recently graduated from college. She is the author of Falling into Place and This is Where the World Ends, and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 4/5
      I could not stop crying.

      This book is told from 2 perspectives, Micah and Janie's, and from 2 different time frames, the before and after.

      Throughout the course of this book, we learn all about this amazing lifelong friendship between Micah and Janie. These two share a soul and a birthday. They care deeply for each other.

      The book opens up with Micah in the hospital suffering from a brain injury. He can't remember anything and Janie is missing. Not only can he not remember the last few weeks, but he can't remember anything right after it happens. As soon as he is told something, he forgets what was said. He is forced to ask the same questions again and again. Police come to question him about what happened "that night", but he can't remember anything.

      As the story progresses, we learn what happened and as Micah's brain begins to heal, he begins to remember as well.
    • 4/5
      YA -- Intelligent YA along the lines of "All the Bright Places" and "We Were Liars" with well-rounded characters and real-life issues and relationships. A little angsty -- is it possible to be a teen and not feel a sense of injustice/unfair judgement/world is out to get me? Janie Vivian and Micah Carter have been friends since childhood -- they share the same birthday and live next door to each other. Since jr. high, they don't move in the same social circles -- Janie skirts the popular crowd and Micah has one friend, Dewey -- yet they hang out a lot beyond the eyes of their smallish town, Waldo, IA, mostly at the quarry and the rock edifice they have named The Metaphor (intelligent YA). Janie has a horrible relationship with her parents who are not present in the story, except through Janie's mentions -- they seem to be social climbers and that is why at the start of senior year, she moves away from Micah to a larger, newer house further out of town. This event is a catalyst for what follows through Nov. of their Sr. year. Told in before and after chapter either in Janie's voice or Micah's and also excerpts of Janie's journal, we have to piece together the cataclysmic (apocalyptic, according to them -- teenage hyperbole!) event that has divided their world in two. Janie is a creative, free-spirited girl who loves matches/fire, her Skarpie markers and journals, and rocks. Micah is a rule-following (except under Janie's influence), below-the-radar kind of kid. It is clear he loves her deeply, and she probably feels the same, but wants a little adventure/attention/fun before she is willing to admit he is her only. Dewey sees all this for what it is, and bugs Micah to let her go and stop being her whipping boy, but Micah's heart is too big. Dewey also has his own motivations. A little confusing, but ultimately touching to learn there was a fire, an accident, and a whole lot that Micah either doesn't know or can't remember, having suffered some head trauma. The move/parental relationship is not the only thing that sends Janie off, but fear of her future and a dangerous relationship with popular Ander Cameron also de-stabilize her. Ultimately, she is a girl who flew too close to the sun and sweet Micah can't save her.
    • 5/5
      I read this book while I was on vacation in Vegas and it falls into the "I devoured it" category. Once I picked it up (on the plane), I could not put it down. One of the best realistic YA novels I've read in a while.Why did I love this book so much? Well, as you may know if you read any of my reviews, the characters where painfully real and that hooked me. Micah is a nerdy boy who has a secret relationship with Janie (his next door neighbour). They have been best friends since they were young and share everything ... according to Janie they share a soul.But Janie doesn't want anyone to know how close her and Micah are. Micah goes along because he's clearly in love with her and they have been friends forever.Janie is the type of character who compartmentalizes her entire life. She has her Janie and Micah compartment, she has her dream compartment (which holds her hopes for taking a gap year in Nepal and working in an orphanage) and then she has her school/friend/popular kid/boyfriend compartment. Micah is only allowed to be part of the first and second compartments but at school and in social settings, Janie pretends she doesn't know him.This is such a real high school relationship, at times it was hard to read. My daughter had a friend who did this to her. He was besties outside of social settings but he didn't include her at school or parties or things like that. My heart broke a bit for Micah, who doesn't understand why Janie does this but goes along with it because that's just Janie.Amy Zhang writes this from both characters' points of view, so the reader does get to see what's going on in Janie's head. We can see that Janie believes that Micah and her will end up together in the end. But that's in the far distant future and for now she wants to have fun. Micah will always be there for her. After all they are destined to be together. And as a reader, you want to believe her.Right from the opening pages of the book, though, you know something is off. Micah wakes in hospital with no memory of what happened to him. He's had a head injury and keeps losing memories. And Janie isn't there. And she's not answering his texts. His buddy tells him that she went to Nepal (where she always wanted to go) and Micah believes him. But things don't add up.As the story unravels, moving back and forward in time, the sequence of events slowly unfold until the reader understands what happens.Without giving it all away, this book deals with heavy topics including mental wellness and brain injury.I strongly recommend This is Where the World Ends. Great book!
    • 5/5
      Amy Zhang was in high school when she wrote her debut novel, Falling Into Place. She has followed this up with another ‘not-put-downable’ book, This is Where the World Ends.Janie and Micah. Micah and Janie. That is how the world should be forever. Two opposites attracted. Janie, the imaginer. The doer. Micah, the follower. The support.They lived next door to each other, bedrooms facing. Janie would slide a shelf between the rooms and shimmy across. They knew each other inside out…best friends, but nothing more. A world unto themselves.Until it all fell apart. Right before the beginning of senior year, Janie moved across town to a bigger house that she hated. But she had no say in her parents’ decision. Although still at the same school, things had changed…dramatically.Janie and Micah’s alternating narrative, the Before and the After, chronicle the disintegration of life, the apocalypse. The Journal of Janie Vivian, words and drawings, embedded in the story, mark the transition from fairy tale to harsh reality.I’d say Amy Zhang is an author to watch, but with two great books to her credit she has already earned our respect. Now it’s a question of waiting…for her next novel. I know I am.
    • 4/5
      4 starsSource: Harper Teen via EdelweissDisclaimer: I received this book as an ARC (advanced review copy). I am not paid for this review, and my opinions in this review are mine, and are not effected by the book being free.Review by Brandi at Brandi Breathes Books (blkosiner.blogspot.com) I wanted to read this one because it deals with friendship and two characters who are very different but seem to work together. The issue of date rape and then even Micah questioning if she was asking for it provides a very tense platform for testing that friendship and its limits. The story is told in dual narrative and it goes Back and forth from before and after Janie's disappearance. through this type of storytelling were able to get a good glimpse of both Micah and Janie and how they interact with each other and what the relationship is like. after Janie disappears Micah has a lot of retrograde amnesia and he isn't remembering much about what happened the night of Janie's disappearance that was apparently a party that got out of hand and her house burned down but he cannot remember any of it. They had a complicated relationship that they kept secret from school. they were neighbors and opposites just attract and they clicked and fit together well they trusted each other and confided in one another and it was hard on Micah because no one else knew how close they were. whenever the police showed up in the hospital after asking questions about Janie and what happened that night and not only did he not remember what went wrong he didn't have the backing of his classmates so his claim that they were close sounded I don't know... out of place or suspicious. There were a lot of lies and cover-ups in this book, and since Janie is so charismatic and Micah is a follower, there is some manipulation from her. As far as the plot, there aren't a lot of surprises since the synopsis is pretty thorough. But that wasn't an issue for me it was more about the journey and what the characters become and how they affect each other. The ending was pretty simplistic, and I still can't figure out if I wanted more or if its perfect for this kind of story. I will read more from Amy Zhang, because she has a poetic, flowing writing style, and she really gives her characters like Janie a beautiful voice to her issues. Bottom Line: Beautiful writing, flawed and complicated characters.